God's Politics offers a clarion call to make America's religious communities and its government more accountable to key values of the prophetic religious tradition - pro-justice, pro-peace, pro-environment, pro-equality, pro-consistent ethic of life and pro-family. These are the values of love and justice, reconciliation, and community at the core of what many people believe, whether Christian or not.
JIM WALLIS, an evangelical, is the leading figure at the crossroads of religion and politics in America today. He is the founder of Sojourners, a US network of progressive Christians working for justice and peace. A bestselling author, his columns appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times.
Reviews
"Two great issues of our time are addressed by Jim Wallis and his thought-provoking answers make powerful reading for anyone interested in social change; Jim Wallis challenges us to create a society which both addresses injustice and stresses personal responsibility and his call for a global covenant through which rich countries meet their obligations to the poor will have a resonance across the world."Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer
"Jim Wallis is that rare thing: a US evangelist who doesn't believe that Jesus wants tax cuts or to invade Iraq. And more and more people are taking notice."
Independent Magazine
"God's Politics is his attempt to wrest the image of American Christianity back from the religious right and bring it in line with the proper concerns of Christians, based on biblical teachings...Wallis has a sensible and compelling message: Christians should not allow their faith to be hijacked by right-wing extremists who use it for political gain."
The Adelaide Review
ISBN: 9780745952246 0745952240
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: Lion Hudson - published 14/02/2006
Format: Paperback 416pp